Master?

Well assuming I passed Advanced Formal Procedures 1 for masters students, I am officially done with my masters degree at the University of Utah.

What a whirlwind.

The past two years have been quite the time for learning, and I have absolutely grown.  I've experienced so many emotions, and met so many people.  It's weird, I thought maybe by the time I finished a masters degree I would have some sort of enlightenment and know exactly how my life would pan out.  I have a much more narrow idea of where I'd like to be in 10 years, but I'm still scratching my head on how to get there.

I didn't expect the whole job application process to be easy, but I haven't expected it to be so hard either.  I've got a third interview in Pleasant Grove this Thursday evening for a job at a k-8 school.   We'll see how that pans out. I really just wish I could push a button and know what I'll be doing in 3 months, but life isn't that easy.

These two years haven't been easy...but I did it.  In a few months I'll have a little piece of paper that says Master of Music.  I still think that's funny. Lisa Tatum - Master of Music.  Tell THAT to my 17 year old self.  It's funny how what you want to do changes over the years, or in my case, doesn't change.  When I was 5 years old, my kindergarten teacher asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up.  I said I wanted to be a teacher.  In the 5th grade, we had to write a paper about what we wanted to be when we grew up, and of course, I was a teacher.  In high school I had brief ambitions of wanting to go to med school, before deciding that I really wanted to major in music education when I went of to my freshman year at the University of Alabama.  Since then I've had times where I want to do something else in music, but I always come back to teaching.  It fits for me.  At least, I think it fits for me.  I suppose my 30 year old self will have a better answer for that than my 25 year old self.

What will future Lisa be like?   It sure will be exciting to find out.